Re: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat webapp

2005-05-17 Thread Len Popp
; Thanks - Richard > > -Original Message- > From: Len Popp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 8:33 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat webapp > > I've been thinking about the same

RE: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat webapp

2005-05-17 Thread Richard Mixon (qwest)
Ed, Thank you - a very cool reference with a number of tricks/knowledge. - Richard -Original Message- From: Gmail User [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 1:23 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat webapp I believe

RE: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat webapp

2005-05-17 Thread Richard Mixon (qwest)
Ed, Thank you - a very cool reference with a number of tricks/knowledge. - Richard -Original Message- From: Gmail User [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 1:23 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat webapp I believe

RE: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat webapp

2005-05-17 Thread Richard Mixon (qwest)
ginal Message- From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 12:36 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat webapp I had a similar requirement in my app... We had a two-hour window per day when the app was unav

RE: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat webapp

2005-05-17 Thread Richard Mixon (qwest)
ginal Message- From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 12:36 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat webapp I had a similar requirement in my app... We had a two-hour window per day when the app was unav

Re: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat webapp

2005-05-17 Thread Will Hartung
> From: "Richard Mixon (qwest)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 7:53 AM > Will, > > Thanks - that may be the simplest solution. It just seems errors prone > (i.e. updating one of the httpd.conf files, but not the other). Still > its appealing for my situation. I am going to bette

RE: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat webapp

2005-05-17 Thread Subir Sengupta
is back up you can redirect the traffic back to the servers. This will allow you to do maintenance on the DB, Application, Tomcat etc. Subir -Original Message- From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 12:36 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: How to do

RE: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat webapp

2005-05-17 Thread Richard Mixon (qwest)
. - Richard -Original Message- From: Will Hartung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 4:43 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat webapp > From: "Richard Mixon (qwest)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sun

RE: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat webapp

2005-05-17 Thread Richard Mixon (qwest)
. - Richard -Original Message- From: Will Hartung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 4:43 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat webapp > From: "Richard Mixon (qwest)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sun

Re: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat webapp

2005-05-17 Thread Will Hartung
> From: "Richard Mixon (qwest)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 8:57 PM > I'm curious how folks handle letting users know that their webapp is > down when doing maintenance. We have an alternate httpd.conf file for Apache that is configured to send everybody to "site down come ba

RE: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat webapp

2005-05-17 Thread Richard Mixon (qwest)
quick and I do not think it disrupts active Tomcat sessions (in other contexts). Thanks - Richard -Original Message- From: Len Popp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 8:33 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat we

RE: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat webapp

2005-05-17 Thread Richard Mixon (qwest)
quick and I do not think it disrupts active Tomcat sessions (in other contexts). Thanks - Richard -Original Message- From: Len Popp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 8:33 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat we

Re: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat webapp

2005-05-16 Thread Gmail User
I believe this link has the info you are looking for. It discusses displaying error messages by Apache when the app server is down. http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/ApacheModProxy Ed On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 11:33 -0400, Len Popp wrote: > I've been thinking about the same problem, but I haven't gotte

Re: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat webapp

2005-05-16 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
I had a similar requirement in my app... We had a two-hour window per day when the app was unavailable because background tasks were processing. The server was still up, and so was the app technically, but it was not available. I wrote a filter to take care of this. I had a flag in applicatio

Re: How to do "Downtime" with a Apache/Tomcat webapp

2005-05-16 Thread Len Popp
I've been thinking about the same problem, but I haven't gotten around to working on it seriously. How about this: Instead of fiddling with the JkMount directives in Apache, swap the web.xml in your Tomcat app so it points to a minimal servlet that returns the "Out of service" page for all requ